[Frances]

i thought i would search before making a post because its something that seems obvious and was already asked. maybe consider adding a search box in the future.

anyway, what are the differences between DEV and Staging during setup? as a first time user of SS I was impressed with alot of stuff but towards the end that part had me guessing.

also, i thought it was funny, and kinda stinks, that i couldn’t install on a subdomain, but there is a subdomain multisite option, and a subdomain dev / staging options.

just something i was pondering over because i don’t understand the complexities of the behind scene things.

p.s. – also couldn’t find a search in the docs / help area about staging / dev.

p.s.s. – before installing ss, i checked out WordOps and they have, what i think, is a nice help section area. perhaps something to replicate.

[Amy]

trying to understand the staging site feature in SlickStack

[Helen]

what are the differences between DEV and Staging during setup?

Good question! Our docs still suck.

After a lot of discussion about dev/staging a few years ago, we decided to “hardcode” the following approach:

dev.example.com is 100% independent, it’s like a separate WordPress site on your server, there is no automatic communication between it and production/staging. By default it’s just a fresh installation of WordPress… if you want to sync your prod site over there for some reason you will have to do that manually using SS scripts.

staging.example.com is very connected with production… by default, SlickStack will automatically sync your production to staging every X hours or so. This means that, unlike other WP services, it’s truly a “staging” site meant to briefly test new features or changes and not for any long-term web dev.

….if you want to sync staging to production we have a script for that, but it must be done manually for security reasons, and it’s currently discouraged to avoid data loss. In the future we are hoping to release a PHP-based script that does this better in WP Admin instead.

[Danielle]

also, i thought it was funny, and kinda stinks, that i couldn’t install on a subdomain, but there is a subdomain multisite option, and a subdomain dev / staging options.

Actually SlickStack does support subdomains! You can install it to any of these:

- example.com
- example.co.uk
- www.example.com
- www.example.co.uk
- blog.example.com
- blog.example.co.uk

It just doesn’t support sub-subdomains aka. multi-level subdomains, because of problems with Cloudflare and SSL certificate management.

Ex. new.blog.example.com is not supported.

However the dev and staging subdomains are reserved and you shouldn’t install SlickStack on those even if you want to use it only as a dev/staging server. Just call it something different to avoid conflicts, for example maybe test.example.com or something.

[Betty]

WHAT DO WE WANT?

(shouting) A search box!

WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

(shouting) Now!

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